Red Cross debuts tornado warning app

6:18 AM,
Mar. 5, 2013

Written by

Jeff Barron
The Eagle-Gazette Staff

Just in time for the spring tornado season, the American Red Cross on Monday debuted a free phone app to warn of impending tornadoes.

The app is available for iPhone, iPad and Android smartphone and tablet users and gives real-time local information regarding a tornado situation. The app also features warning sounds when a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tornado warning is issued. Users are notified when the warning has passed.

"This is a pretty cool app," Fairfield and Hocking counties' American Red Cross Executive Director Jeff Miller said. "It is easy to use and it is ...